GRE Word List
WANGLE
to resort to trickery or devious methods
The meaning of the word wangle is to resort to trickery or devious methods.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |